AHC: A surviving modern independent Saarland

Basically the POD is after WW2 and would have the independent Saarland retain its independence. From what I understand it was economically integrated into the French economy and could have remained as it was. I feel if they had tried to move more Francophones into the region they could've tipped the scale toward being like Belgium, a state divided between two major ethnic groups.
 
Why not give it to Luxembourg? Luxembourg and Saarland have a common border. If you also add some area south of Trier, you could form a more compact state as well.
 
Why not give it to Luxembourg? Luxembourg and Saarland have a common border. If you also add some area south of Trier, you could form a more compact state as well.

Saarlanders might cause some terrible headache for Luxembourg. And isn't Saarland itself already about same size as Luxembourg?
 
Saarlanders might cause some terrible headache for Luxembourg. And isn't Saarland itself already about same size as Luxembourg?

Sure, Saarland has about the same geographical size (slightly smaller) and almost twice the population, but, if the people of Saarland wanted to join Luxembourg (and Luxembourg wanted to have them), I cannot see why it should not work. I am not sure how people in Luxembourg and Saarland would have reacted to such a proposal, though.
 
Basically the POD is after WW2 and would have the independent Saarland retain its independence. From what I understand it was economically integrated into the French economy and could have remained as it was. I feel if they had tried to move more Francophones into the region they could've tipped the scale toward being like Belgium, a state divided between two major ethnic groups.
Is not the UN against colonising occupied territory as you propose the French do in Saarland? Turkey gets shit for doing that in Cyprus.
 
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